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Title

Back decoration and bilum bag

collected 1967

Artists

Unknown Artist

No image

  • Details

    Other Title
    Back decoration and billum bag
    Place where the work was made
    Western Highlands Province → Papua New Guinea
    Cultural origin
    Hewa people
    Date
    collected 1967
    Media categories
    Mixed media , Textile
    Materials used
    skin with cassowary feathers, knotted plant fibre, cassowary toes, pig claws, possum teeth, tambu shells, leaves
    Dimensions
    55.0 x 29.0
    Credit
    Gift of Stan Moriarty 1977
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    784.1979.3.a-c
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  • Places

    Where the work was made

    Western Highlands Province